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This book is derived from my master’s thesis through which I have achieved the degree ‘Master of Science’ in the study course Bionics/Biomimetics. The basic idea for it came up during a semester innovation project in 2011. Back then, my fellow student Adam Braun and I were inspired by a spider that is capable of actively doing somersaults using its legs in a very specific way. The question we asked ourselves was: Is it possible to mimic this rolling and walking locomotion with an analog robotic structure? All spiders share the capability of walking, running and jumping, for instance.
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King, R.S. (2013). Introduction. In: BiLBIQ: A Biologically Inspired Robot with Walking and Rolling Locomotion. Biosystems & Biorobotics, vol 2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34682-8_1
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